Participation/Registration

Participation

Abstracts

The
participants are invited to submit abstracts on their research regarding all
aspects of Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems. All abstracts will be reviewed before acceptance.
Accepted abstracts will be available as a free printed abstract volume to the
participants (a free pdf-version of the abstract volume will also be provided). A condition of the abstract submission is that, if accepted, the talk or poster will be
presented at the Symposium by one of the authors. Each participant is allowed
to first-author one oral presentation and one poster presentation. But, you
are welcome to co-author as many contributions as you want.

Please note: If there are too many oral presentation submissions for the available session time slots, the scientific committee will change some submissions to poster contributions.

Abstracts
must not exceed two A4-pages, including the author addresses, figures, and
references [please, use text font Times New Roman, main text 11p; 10p for
references, figure captions, author addresses; 1.15 line spacing; one MS Word
document with standard margins (2.5 cm left, right and top, 2.0 cm bottom);
species and genus names must be in italics; do not use any other formatting (e.g., no
text justification)]. Send the MS Word document as an attachment to [Email protection active, please enable JavaScript.]. Please rename the abstract word file with the family name of the first author in upper case letters followed by given name (FAMILYNAME_Given_Name.doc).

All oral
presentations have to be a Microsoft PowerPoint file (.ppt/.pptx) and be compatible
with MS Office 2007. Each talk is restricted to 15 minutes, preferably 12
minutes talk and 3 minutes questions.

** Participation on icebreaker party and conference dinner. No congress material.

*** early bird registration extended

Cancellation Policy

- Cancellations received by 31st of March, 2018: 100 % - 25 Euro service fee of the registration fee will be refunded.

- Cancellations received by 31st of May, 2018: 50 % of the registration fee will be refunded.

- No refunds will be available for cancellations made after 31st of May, 2018.

Pre-Conference field trip

The
pre-conference field trip will visit important classical and new Mesozoic
fossil sites in Germany as well as the Unesco World Heritage Site Messel. The
field trip starts at 8 am on Monday morning, July 16, 2018, from Bonn by bus. The field
trip will approximately follow the route: Bonn – Hanover – Quedlinburg – Bamberg
area – Eichstätt – Holzmaden – Stuttgart
area – Ingelfingen – Messel – Bonn.

Accomodation
will be in hotels with double rooms including breakfast. Please let us know, if
you have someone to share your room with. Excursion fee includes
transportation, hotel accommodation, lunch packages, field guide, and entrance
fees. Dinner is not included. The number of participants is limited to 28.